The effect of routine income withholding of child support collections

Irwin Garfinkel and Marieka M. Klawitter
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Irwin Garfinkel: Professor in the School of Social Work and Afiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Postal: Professor in the School of Social Work and Afiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Marieka M. Klawitter: Graduate student in the Department o f Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Postal: Graduate student in the Department o f Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1990, vol. 9, issue 2, 155-177

Abstract: Recent federal legislation requires states to make substantial improvements in paternity establishment, enact numeric child support standards for determining child support awards, update those awards at least every three years, and adopt routine income withholding of all child support obligations. Data gathered for the purpose of evaluating the Wisconsin Child Support Assurance System make it possible to examine the effects of routine income withholding on the size and regularity of child support payments. The data consisted of court records of child support cases that entered the court system in 20 Wisconsin counties between 1980 and 1986. Our estimates suggest routine income withholding increases child support payments by between 11 and 30 percent.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.2307/3325410

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